Louis Zhang Jiashu | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Shanghai | |
 Zhang in episcopal dress with a biretta and a pectoral cross | |
| Native name | 张家树 |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Shanghai |
| In office | 1960–1988 |
| Predecessor | Ignatius Kung Pin-mei Francis Xavier Zhang Shilang (without Vatican approval) |
| Successor | Aloysius Jin Luxian |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 1960 (without Vatican approval) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 June 1893 Shanghai, Jiangsu, Qing China |
| Died | 25 February 1988 (aged 94) Shanghai, China |
Louis Zhang Jiashu[a] SJ (30 June 1893 – 25 February 1988) was a Chinese Jesuit priest. A founding member of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) in 1957, Zhang was elected and consecrated as the Bishop of Shanghai in 1960 without Vatican approval. He then suffered persecution during the Cultural Revolution, but resumed his position after the movement and became a political figure in his final years.
Born and raised in Shanghai, Zhang completed his Jesuit formation in Europe and returned to China in 1925. After the 1955 arrest of Bishop Ignatius Kung Pin-mei, Zhang supported the Chinese Communist Party and the self-election, self-consecration practice, in which diocesan priests elect their own bishops, and eventually became bishop in the same manner. After the Cultural Revolution, he became a delegate to the 5th National People's Congress, and a member of the Standing Committee of the 5th and 6th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 1980 he was elected the inaugural leader of both the Bishops' Conference of Catholic Church in China and the Chinese Catholic Church Affairs Committee.
In his final years, Zhang founded the Sheshan Seminary in 1982 and served as its first president of the board. He also met with world religious figures including Robert Runcie, John Baptist Wu, and Desmond Tutu.
- ^ Mariani 2016, p. 41.
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